{"id":6366,"date":"2022-12-06T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2022-12-06T06:52:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:52:10","slug":"%ef%bb%bfthat-wonderful-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThat wonderful medicine!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>That wonderful medicine!<\/strong>(Letters of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/SERMONS2\/Philpot.htm\">J. C. Philpot<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cwho forgiveth all thine iniquities;<br>who healeth all thy diseases\u201d&nbsp;Psalm 103:3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a mass of . . .<br>&nbsp; filth and folly,<br>&nbsp; blindness and ignorance,<br>&nbsp; deceit and hypocrisy,<br>&nbsp; carnality, sensuality, and devilism are we!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prone to all that is bad, utterly averse to all<br>that is good\u2013bent upon sin\u2013hating holiness,<br>heavenly-mindedness, and spirituality\u2013what<br>earthly wretches, guilty monsters, abominable<br>creature are we!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if our minds are sometimes drawn upwards<br>in faith and affection, and we pant after the living<br>God\u2013how soon, how almost instantly, do we drop<br>down again into our<em>&nbsp;earthly self<\/em>, whence we are<br>utterly unable to rise until the Blessed Spirit lifts<br>us out again! What fits of unbelief, shakings of<br>infidelity, fevers of lust, agues of carelessness,<br>consumptions of faith, hope, love and zeal; yes,<br>what a host of diseases dwell in our poor soul!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they all admit of a twofold cure\u2013<strong>that wonderful<\/strong><strong><br>medicine<\/strong>&nbsp;which John saw run from the wounded side<br>of the Redeemer\u2013blood and water; the one to heal,<br>the other to wash; the one to atone, the other to<br>cleanse; justification by blood, and sanctification<br>by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the<br>Holy Spirit.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That wonderful medicine!(Letters of&nbsp;J. C. Philpot) \u201cwho forgiveth all thine iniquities;who healeth all thy diseases\u201d&nbsp;Psalm 103:3 What a mass of . . .&nbsp; filth and folly,&nbsp; blindness and ignorance,&nbsp; deceit and hypocrisy,&nbsp; carnality, sensuality, and devilism are we! Prone to all that is bad, utterly averse to allthat is good\u2013bent upon sin\u2013hating holiness,heavenly-mindedness, and spirituality\u2013whatearthly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-j-c-philpot","category-gods-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6367,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}